Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | In 90 minutes they managed two shots at the Benfica goal and scored twice . |
2 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
3 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
4 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
5 | In nine days they flew twenty-one relief flights … from a base in Zagreb … to the devastated Saravejo . |
6 | In 124 couples the female partners smoked cigarettes , and in 236 couples they did not . |
7 | In twenty minutes they lost every officer except one . |
8 | In four days they moved nine kilometres . |
9 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
10 | In two days they climbed the two remaining plumb lines , the magnificent Centurion and The Shield . |